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Posted Monday, Dec. 30 Acme sells two stations to Tribune Acme Communications will take a big bite out of its debt with the sale of WB-affiliated KPLR-TV in St. Louis and KWBP-TV in Portland, Ore., to Tribune Co. for $275…
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Former UPN President Dean Valentine is among the U.S. investors expected to buy 49.9 percent of the Jim Henson Co. The German media company EM.TV, which bought the Jim Henson Co. and rights to the Muppets in February 2000 for…
Product Spotlight: SNAPfeed
What it is: SNAPfeed, a software tool from AP BroadcastHow it works: SNAPfeed analyzes the resources and connections available for journalists in the field who need to file stories. It then recommends the best and fastest way to send the…
Coalition: Put indie shows on network TV
Bring back fin-syn.That’s the rallying cry of the Coalition for Program Diversity, a newly formed alliance of guilds and entertainment and advertising companies, including the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Sony Pictures Television, Carsey-Werner-Mandabach Productions and MediaCom.The Coalition…
Profile: Ed Forman
Title: senior VP, marketing, ICTVBackground: Mr. Forman joined ICTV in early November after serving as a consultant to the interactive TV company for about two years. He oversees the product planning and marketing for the company and HeadendWare, a centralized…
WorldLink TV may be our Al-Jazeera
Ray Hanania, part-time standup comic and full-time Arab-American journalist, recently came to the defense of Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based television news channel that sees the world very differently from, say, Fox News.Most Americans know Al-Jazeera as Osama bin Laden’s favorite channel….
Quick Takes
“All the networks do a fine job of bringing important news to us. The American public needs the networks-for national and international stories-and they need local news to learn what’s happening in their own communities.”Rosalind Stark, executive director, RTNDA“CNN seems…
Tech Briefs
Independent Film Channel plans a video-on-demand and subscription VOD service for cable operators starting in the first quarter of 2003. The service has been tested over the past year with its parent company, Cablevision. IFC on Demand will include films…
Who is News
BroadcastingDavid Lougee to president and general manager, KING-TV, KONG-TV and Northwest Cable News, Seattle, from VP and general manager, KING and KONG. Also, Deborah Wilson to VP and assistant general manager, KING, KONG and NWCN, from president, sales and marketing,…
Latin Emmys proposal splits academies
And the Emmy for most excellent feud goes to … the TV academies that dispense the Emmys. The decades-long cool war between the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, headquartered in New York with 18 chapters scattered throughout the…